Word: jamming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Aside from the Islamic world, where laws based on fundamentalist strictures often forbid access to any entertainment, there seem to be very few places where that is not the case. Even in secular Iraq, teenagers jam the half a dozen or so little shops in downtown Baghdad that sell pirated copies of American rock-'n'-roll tapes and where the walls are covered with posters of Madonna and Metallica...
...guard to check thoroughly the belongings and person of every student that exits the libraries. When classes let out in Lamont, more than 50 people leave the building in less than five minutes. Thoroughly checking a student would take two or three minutes at least--creating a huge traffic jam...
Imagine my surprise to find dozens of posters and hear dozens of announcements announcing the Orientation Week a cappella jam in Sanders Theater. I had been betrayed, but consoled myself with the thought I would never have to hear a group sing...
Prince's crony Morris Day appears, quite amusingly, as the headman of the vandals, and the producers Jimmy (Jam) Harris and Terry Lewis show up as a couple of his henchmen. Harris and Lewis were pals and musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed...
...City Council last night threatened to sue the Massachusetts government to block construction of a proposed 28-lane highway interchange in East Cambridge, warning at a jam-packed meeting that the 11-story behemoth would devastate the city...